August 21, 2018
Today, the Virginia State Water Control Board allowed the controversial fracked-gas Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines to proceed with current inadequate permits.
Press Releases
August 21, 2018
Albany, NY-- Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that New York will join the Powering Past Coal Alliance, an international group of governments, businesses and organizations dedicating itself to ending the use of coal-fired power. Today’s announcement comes as former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler released an unlawfully weak carbon pollution policy that pales in comparison to the Obama Administration’s ambitious policy to work with states to dramatically reduce carbon pollution, promote economic and environmental justice, protect public health, and remove barriers to create a national clean energy economy.
August 21, 2018
DTE symbolically breaks ground on their controversial nearly one billion dollar gas plant in East China Township. Though construction does not formally begin until 2019, DTE chose to hold a celebration on the day that opponents will be filing their opening briefs for the appeal of the Michigan Public Service Commission’s decision to approve the plant.
August 21, 2018
College Park, MD - Former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler released an unlawfully weak carbon pollution policy today that would gut the Clean Power Plan’s life-saving standards and do next to nothing to fight the climate crisis.
August 21, 2018
Pittsburgh, PA - Former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler released an unlawfully weak carbon pollution policy today that would gut the Clean Power Plan’s life-saving standards and do next to nothing to fight the climate crisis.
August 20, 2018
Today, former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler released an unlawfully weak carbon pollution policy that would gut the Clean Power Plan’s life-saving standards and do nothing to fight the climate crisis. The Wheeler-Pruitt proposal would remove clean air safeguards that protect West Virginia's health, environment, and air.
August 20, 2018
Today, former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler released an unlawfully weak carbon pollution policy that would gut the Clean Power Plan’s life-saving standards and do next to nothing to fight the climate crisis, continuing the agenda of disgraced former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. The Wheeler-Pruitt proposal pales in comparison to the previous Administration’s ambitious policy to work with states to dramatically reduce carbon pollution, promote economic and environmental justice, protect public health, and remove barriers to America’s clean energy economy.
August 20, 2018
GRAND CANYON, AZ – Emmy-nominated actress Yvonne Strahovski (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) stars in a new video out today calling for protection of the Grand Canyon from toxic uranium mining. The actress recently joined a Sierra Club outing to the Grand Canyon region with her husband, actor Tim Loden, to experience the wonder of Arizona’s immense national park and to see first-hand the need to permanently protect it.
August 20, 2018
On Monday, August 20, 2018, Friends of the Chicago River and the Sierra Club filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against the Trump International Hotel & Tower.
August 20, 2018
The Sierra Club announced today that it will be launching a five-figure digital advertising campaign against the Trump Administration’s efforts to force taxpayers and electricity customers to pay tens of billions of dollars to bail out uneconomic coal and nuclear plants. The advertisements will run on Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook, and will be geographically targeted to viewers in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest who are likely to bear the most significant costs of a bailout.